Color of Hockey: Bringing game to Egypt
Organizers aiming to join IIHF, build program that can compete in Winter Olympics
by William Douglas
@WDouglasNHL / NHL.com Staff Writer
April 12, 2020
The NHL brought hockey to the desert by putting teams in Las Vegas and Phoenix.
Sameh Ramadan is on a crusade to bring the game to the sands of Egypt.
Ramadan is general manager and co-captain of Egypt Ice Hockey, a national club team appropriately named the Pharaohs. With the same kind of patience that it took to erect the pyramids stone by stone, he and the Pharaohs are building an Egyptian hockey program in hopes of joining the International Ice Hockey Federation and, some day, competing in the Winter Olympics.
Why Egypt?
Why not? ...
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